PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13454, 3 June 1907, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. W. G. Mair left for the South;by the Rarawa yesterday. V"

; Mr. C. W. Pleon left for the South by the Rarawa yesterday.

Mr. A. While Parsons left by the Rarawa yesterday for the South.

Mr. -D. W. •> Duthie returned ', from the South by the Pateena yesterday. :

Captain Seargeant arrived from New Ply mouth yesterday by the Pateena.

Dr. H. Grattan Guinness leaves for Sydney by the Zealajidia this evening.,

Mr. J. Murgatroyd came up from the South on Saturday by. the Rarawa.

Mr. J. Trevithick came up from New Plymouth yesterday by the Pateena.

* Mr. W. ■'- J. Napier returned by the Rarawa from the South on Saturday. . ,

Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton-Grapes, English tourists, went , South yesterday by the Rarawa. . - ...'. -

Mrs. Denniston and Miss Denniston were passengers from Gisbome by the Moura on Saturday. '.

Lieutenant North,"R.N. of the ' flagship Powerful, returned by the Moura from Gisborne on Saturday.

Mr. Clement L.Wragge, the well-known meteorologist, was in April camping in the Himalaya Mountains.

Mr. Geo. Morse, handicapper to the Auckland Racing Club, arrived from Wanganui by the Rarawa on Saturday.

Mr. Geo. M.vurrio arrived from Wanganui on Saturday bv the Rarawa to see his horses run at the Great Northern Meeting.

Dr. R. H. Makgill,. of the Health Department, left for New Plymouth by the Rarawa yesterday, en route to Wellington.

The chief inspector of machinery for the cs'Jony (Mr. Robert Duncan) was a passenger by the Rarawa yesterday for Wellington. - ■ * ' '...

Captain Cormack, late of the barque Waiiti,. recently left Newcastle for Valparaiso as chief officer of the four-masted barque Springbank. : • - .

Mr. Casey, of Wellington, president of the Federated Catholic You Men's Society of New Zealand, arrived on Saturday by the Rarawa.

; The late Mr. J. Goldsworthy, who died at Coromandel, was buried at the Onehunga cemetery yesterday .afternoon, the remains having "been brought from Coromandel on 'Saturday. ',

Mr. Charles Earle, associate editor of the Evening Post, Wellington, has accepted the appointment of editor of the new morning newspaper which is to be published in that city in the course of a few months.

The Rev. Arthur Dewdney, formerly pastor of ; the .'• Wanganui Baptist. Church, who has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Baptist Church at Brooklyn, Wellington, entered upon his duties yesterday.

'The many friends of Mr. Alfred Barnes, of Onehunga, will regret to learn that he is very seriously . ill. '■■ Mr. Barnes was ; for many years shipping! agent Onehunga for * both -» the Union J and: ... Northern Shipping Companies. . *

' Mr. Itobt. Cunningham, the tenor singer, who is, reported, to have achieved a success at Covent Garden, in London, is a native of Newcastle (N.S.W.), and a brother of Mr. E. . Cunningham, the editor of the Melbourne Argus.

The Rev. Robt. Inglis, M.A., who is to be inducted as minister of the Presbyterian Church of Onslow, Wellington, to-morrow evening, has arrived from Nowra, New South Wales, where he - had been minister for oyer • nine years. ;

. An eld resident of Wellington, Mrs. Sarah Frances widow of the late Mr. George France;,'; died " on. Saturday. The deceased was 67 years of age, and went to Wellington by the ship Hurunui 33 years ago. ; She had resided in that city ever since.

Mr. Harry Riley, who is severing his connection with the New Zealand Insurance Company ;' was presented with a memento by the" members of the Wellington staff of the company. Mr. Riley leaves Wellington today to join a survey camp in the Taupo district. '. .•'••'' •■•'

■";■■;■ ■Mr/ 3. Inglis* Wright, of Dunedin, has been elected a. member of the Incorporated - Society of Advertising Agents, a British organisation. Mr. Wright ; is said to be the first • Australasian upon whom the compliment of membership has been conferred by th» society. - . -

Messrs. ">■ Estcourt; Blackmail, Montgomery, Clonston, White, .- Jentke, Levy, McCinley.VHaO; Home, Bell," and Jacobi, •f' the Wellington : lacrosse ' team, left on their i return by the ;-.' Rarawa ? yesterday. They were seen, off at Onehunga by a number of Auckland enthusiasts..

Mr. H. Gilbert-Smith, who left Auckland for Whangarei on Friday night to take up a position at that place, had. a hearty send-off at the steamer by. a large number of friends. ; The committee of the West End Tennis Club "At Home" presented him with a, handsome case of pipes as a token of '; appreciation of ; the able . manner in which he had carried out the arduous duties, of bon. secretary, and it was pointed out by Mr.rW/'Endean that the success of th« function was largely duo to Mr. Smith's j efforts.- * - '. • ' j